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Having covered the last two Olympics and every World Championship since 2000, Lucas Aykroyd is one of the world's leading ice hockey experts.
Here the Canadian journalist picks five books every hockey fan must have. Click here for Hockey Books Overview.
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If you want the inside scoop on hockey, who's better qualified to provide it than a six-time Stanley Cup champion, five-time winner of the NHL's best goalie award, and student of history, law and politics? The man in question is Ken Dryden, and the answer is: "Nobody".
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For children, the only thing worse than receiving a present you really didn't want is getting one that makes you a joke to the other kids. Award-winning Canadian author Roch Carrier's most famous children's short story fictionalizes this predicament perfectly.
The USA's "Miracle on Ice" victory over the Soviet Union in Olympic ice hockey has often been called "the greatest moment in sports history". Wayne Coffey's 272-page retrospective more than does justice to that immortal 1980 game in Lake Placid.
When it comes to powerful fiction featuring a self-destructive main character, Roy MacGregor's The Last Season is hockey's best answer to Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Grey. This complex, layered work is worth reading more than once.
Looking for insight into the psyche of the greatest ice hockey player in history at the peak of his powers, personally and professionally? Then look no further than Wayne Gretzky's self-titled 1990 autobiography.